The study to be reported was developed from the author's observation of his own writing behavior. For many years he has been impressed, and, at times depressed, by the unesthetic appearance of his cursive writing. This appearance may be described as irregular and arrhythmic; with variations in the shape, size, slant and spacing of the letters; with deviations in the vertical placing of the line, etc. These characteristics place his writing in marked contrast with the productions of most of his colleagues and many of his students. The first clue for the explanation of the noted differences came to him on an occasion when, during the course of one day, he spent approximately seven hours at intensive, hurried, writing tasks. At the end of this period of activity he was clearly aware of a marked 'stiffness' and soreness in the reacting mechanisms involved in speech; and this particularly in the region of the larynx. The two sets of observations, that is, of the quality of the writing and of the evidences of fatigue in the speech mechanisms, apparently resulting from a long period of writing activity, led him to formulate the hypothesis that there might be some covariant relation. More careful introspection appeared to reveal that, as he wrote, even very familiar and frequently used words, the writing acts were accompanied by implicit speech acts representing every letter. The casual questioning of a few students brought to light that some were clearly aware of this same phenomenon and that some were not. As a consequence of these casual observations and investigations, the following propositions were formulated and are here submitted.